C. Jason Throop is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at UCLA. Prior to arriving at UCLA, Dr. Throop completed a year-long position as a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the department of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy and the Initiative for Health, Humanity and Culture at USC. There he worked on the multi-year NIH funded Boundary Crossing Project examining the lives of African-American children suffering with severe illnesses and disabilities in urban Los Angeles. Throop’s involvement with the project was greatly informed by his previous dissertation research, which consisted of a psycho-cultural and medical anthropological study of the experiences of chronic and acute pain sufferers on the island of Yap (Waqab), Federated States of Micronesia. Generally, his research interests include: psychological and medical anthropology, phenomenology, theories of experience in anthropology, self and subjective experience, empathy, pain/emotion/sensation, temporality, anthropology of the will, Yap (Federated States of Micronesia).
C. Jason Throop is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at UCLA. Prior to arriving at UCLA, Dr. Throop completed a year-long position as a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the department of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy and the Initiative for Health, Humanity and Culture at USC. There he worked on the multi-year NIH funded Boundary Crossing Project examining the lives of African-American children suffering with severe illnesses and disabilities in urban Los Angeles. Throop’s involvement with the project was greatly informed by his previous dissertation research, which consisted of a psycho-cultural and medical anthropological study of the experiences of chronic and acute pain sufferers on the island of Yap (Waqab), Federated States of Micronesia. Generally, his research interests include: psychological and medical anthropology, phenomenology, theories of experience in anthropology, self and subjective experience, empathy, pain/emotion/sensation, temporality, anthropology of the will, Yap (Federated States of Micronesia).
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